I solved it, thanks to help from the IRC ("twkm" suggested using
strace instead of gdb, and that worked great).

I then ran $(strace /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base dns-server qt), which
pointed me to the log file /var/log/YaST2/y2log . I saved the last few
lines of this at [http://pastebin.com/f57015cb6].

The fix is to create /var/lib/YaST2/yast2-dns-server_reverse-zones
with the content

"""$[
]
"""

instead of having an empty file.

hope this helps someone in the future,
Nicholas — ntung at ntung —  https://ntung.com

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Nicholas Tung <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sorry to "bump" a message, but could some please get back to me? Is
> there a verbose/debug option when starting YaST so I might figure out
> what the problem is?
>
> Please tell me if this is the wrong list.
>
> Thanks very much,
> Nicholas — ntung at ntung —  https://ntung.com
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Nicholas Tung <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >    I have a machine on which the YaST dns-server module is silently
> > failing (no command line output is produced). Fortunately, the server
> > seems to be working, I just can't configure it. I don't want to edit
> > the DNS entries by hand, if possible. Any assistance would be much
> > appreciated. The output on /var/log/messages when restarting named is
> > here [1].
> >
> > Thanks very much,
> > Nicholas — ntung at ntung —  https://ntung.com
> >
> > [1] http://pastebin.com/m38209cbd
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